Busts on coke smuggling shipments from Latin America were down in 2007, which means dealers are likely using sneakier means of getting you your weekend party fuel, you crazy sweaty skiing motherfucking Wall Street i-bankers, you:

Navy Adm. Jim Stavridis, commander of U.S. Southern Command, which is responsible for U.S. military operations in the region, said seizures fell from 262 metric tons in 2006 to about 210 tons last year.

“It’s difficult to say why that is,” he said in an interview with three reporters who visited his headquarters with Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who expressed concern at the shift.

The 2007 figure was the lowest since 2003, other officials said.

“In any given contest of offense and defense you’ve got to adjust your tactics,” Stavridis added, alluding to a conclusion reached by Mullen and others that the drug organizations are nimbler than the U.S. government.

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Coke Smuggling Busts Down in 2007 [Time]